Survival of the sleepiest
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The comparable likeness of being
Mental Leaps
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The rational lottery
Inevitable Illusions
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The sages of reason
Critical Theory - Critical Theory and the Novel - Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists
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Tin men in pinnies
Intelligent Behaviour in Animals and Robots
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Yesterday's hero and his Maoris
Forerunners of the All Blacks
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Worlds 3 Popper 0
The Mind-Body Problem
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Student nurse shortage
(Photograph) - Nurses have called for higher bursaries to support training and more robust quality assurance arrangements to protect standards on courses. Delegates at the Royal College of Nursing's...
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Unions urge colleges to accept redundancies
Further education unions have this week held talks with two Scottish colleges in the hope of staving off compulsory redundancies. Both Falkirk and Jewel and Esk Valley Colleges are facing cuts as the...
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Ancient foundation courses
Even a superficial acquaintance with England's past brings with it a realisation of the central role of Latin and of ancient Greece and Rome in the development of our culture. Shakespeare, Milton, T...
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Doctors leaving South Africa
Advisers to the South African health ministry are suggesting national service for new doctors in response to a brain drain. The ministry wants to ensure that they work off some of the state money...
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Human eco centre under threat
Edinburgh University's unique centre for human ecology has launched an urgent appeal for Pounds 250,000 after discovering that it faces closure in September. The 23-year-old centre, which straddles a...
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Ancient foundation courses
Does the absence of classics in the national curriculum foreshadow their demise in universities? Peter Jones (left) fears it may, Nick Tate (right) is more optimistic. Sir Kenneth Dover, classicist...
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Taking the tablets
Paul Bompard reports on the most amazing archaeological discovery since the second world war, the lost city of Ebla. In 1962 a 22-year-old graduate student from Rome University might have been...
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Don't ask, don't get
When the vice chancellor of an Irish university ran into a prominent alumnus, he asked him a question that had been bothering him for some time. "I heard you gave a major gift to another university...